DLUTI 233 - The Glendale Archives

This week, we check out a hot new YouTube liminal space horror series. She archive on my Glen 'til I Dale down at The Facility.

Transcript

Cold Open And Housekeeping

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Don't look under the internet.

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Oh, wow, that's two minutes y'all don't get back in your lives, huh? Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:34

Welcome to Look.

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Enter. Enter.

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Yeah, that one. That's for those who still have ears, don't look under the internet. That's us. Starring yours truly is your boy Douglas. Um hello. Ya boy Mootholmule J. Simpson.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

You guys didn't hear that, but I heard that.

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And it's your boy, Mike Tholomule J. Pimson. Oh shit! Don't call me Bart because I ain't a simp son. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06 1:25

Kick kick him from the Discord, please.

SPEAKER_04 1:29

No. Anyway, gonna top us off with uh just the smallest bit of uh diluty housekeeping clapping above my head a smidge there. Um, not a whole heck of a lot going on, no one to really shout out at the moment. Um, but I do just want to say, like I keep saying, we have a confirmed like draft image and everything that's gonna be going on our new merch. Um so get what you want because it we we don't have much more time until it's gonna be gone. So uh yeah, do that. Uh also I'm just gonna go off of like uh uh uh first off, shouts out to Ginger Peach. Just want to say real quick, she did she sent us an email. Not to sound greedy, but if anyone wants to do that again, give us free shit. Give us free shit. I'm not gonna say no to free shit. So hey, if you're feeling dangerous and you're like, I'm gonna even if it even if you even if it's like you spent two minutes on it and you think it's stupid, send it to me anyway, and I guarantee you I will put it on something.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

And by free shit, we mean we mean art. If anybody wants to send us art.

SPEAKER_06 2:35

Yeah, I don't want your penis. Yeah, because we can't get a fucking P.O.

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box in the P.O.

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box. Don't don't send us anything to the P.O. box.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

Yeah, don't send things to the P.O. box. I email only right now. I guarantee there's somebody who like sent something to the P.O. box after like th like really nice, and after like three months it got returned, and they were like, Well, fuck this podcast. I'm never listening to this again.

SPEAKER_04 2:55

I sent them 12 gold bars. What the fuck? Why don't they like me? But yeah, just don't ever send us anything in the P.O. box until you hear otherwise. Um only email, please, and thank you. Um, that's all I have for house keeping. Hell yeah. Had a sneeze. Um boys. Now that's right. Everyone in between.

SPEAKER_06 3:27

God damn, you flashbangs. Did you just open the sun in a tab? What the hell happened?

SPEAKER_04 3:36

Now, boys, last week we covered the who, which you could argue was some form of an archive. Why even bring it up? Because I don't want to talk about it anymore. It was some form of an archive, but we like to take ourselves into a different position this time around, into a much more, I don't know, better position this time around. Uh, one that makes us feel good about ourselves in a in a better way. Um, you we we are gonna go towards a place not too far from our hearts called Glendale, uh formerly known as Glennon. We're gonna cover the Glendale archives. I didn't have a good segue lined up at all for this.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

You had so many opportunities with Glenn and Dale.

SPEAKER_04 4:24

I was gonna do the Glendale Heights thing, but I felt like that didn't make any lick of sense.

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So a man named Glenn walks into a bar and Dale is there.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

And they're eating a potato, and he's got these green things on it, and Glenn goes, Are chives? And uh he goes, Yeah, there he goes.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

That's the chive was on the TV in the bar.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:51

The chives were the friends we made along the way.

SPEAKER_04 4:54

Yeah. But we're covering uh the Glendale Archives, uh formerly the artists formerly known as the Glenn Archives. Why they changed the name, I do not know. But uh you'll soon come to see, I think, this one.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

Also, we've been meaning to do this for like two months, and you know what? Film theory did it like a week ago, and fuck them.

SPEAKER_04 5:22

Nightmind did it. Next mode. Nightmind did it. Nightmind did it. Everyone did it, and this this happens to me so fucking often. I'll sit on a topic, I'll put it in my fucking my list, it'll sit there for like three or four months, and finally, the moment I'm like, oh, we should do this, fucking nightmind, next.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

Well, you tried, you had like the outline made and everything, and we just kept dropping the ball on you.

SPEAKER_04 5:48

Yeah, it don't matter, but like everyone's just like we're doing it now, and it's because what we talked about this in like January, didn't we? Where I was like, hey, did you see these TikToks? And then yeah, it was I think it was February. Um, yeah, something like that. But either way, I I want people to know we're not stealing. We find this shit first sometimes, maybe not all the time. But damn it, we're always on the forefront. We just never get to release it until it's too late.

SPEAKER_06 6:18

We're just really fucking lazy and clearly can't get everyone together ever, so you know.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

It is what it is. Also, at one point does it make sense to do it now because now the SEO's on our side. So we got that going for us, which is nice. Um, but I guess where do we start with the Glendale archives?

Empty City Survival Footage

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Oh, well, my name's first on the outline, so I guess we start with me. Okay, so here's the thing. This is uploaded in a way, and the way we're gonna talk about it is not that way. Because we're gonna take a different approach and we're gonna do these in chronological order instead of the way they were uploaded, because they are uploaded out of order, and there is a playlist on the Glendale Archives YouTube channel that puts them in chronological order if you want that. So there's gonna be some things that you learn earlier in our description of this than you would if you were watching them in the way they were uploaded.

SPEAKER_04 7:24

But I think it makes the most sense.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Get over it. The first video, if you're going chronologically, is called The World Is Empty, Everything Is Mine. So if you fire this video up, the first thing you're gonna see is uh you're gonna be greeted with a man. So this is a guy, he's probably like in his late 20s or like his early 30s, and he's got long hair and a beard, and he's kind of skinny. And you'll notice that the video is in like a 4-3 format, and it looks old and grainy and very like YouTube analog horror-esque style. Um, and he is this guy is narrating over some footage of an empty city, and he tells us that about a week ago he decided to he needed to leave the city, and he tells us that it's been forever since he's seen another human being. So he shows us bunches bunches of shots of this completely empty city, and like it doesn't look run down, it's just empty. Like it looks like everybody up and disappeared yesterday, which is super fucking weird. He also mentions that the city's like starting to get dangerous, and he's apparently barricaded himself inside of his apartment, and so we see like a shot of the inside of his apartment, and someone's like banging on the door and moaning in the background. Um, also some things that I noted where there's snow on the ground, so obviously he lives somewhere cold. And if you read the comments on any of the videos, you'll pretty quickly find out that this is Albany, New York, in this area. New York, A D. Um, he shows us that he goes out and he gets supplies at one point. So um lot of beans. Yeah. So he Yeah, he's like grabbing cans of chili and like beans and shit and spaghetti noodles and stuff off the shelf. And like it looks like the stores are still being stocked, or like I said, everybody just kind of fucking up and disappeared yesterday, and the lights are like still on in the store and shit, which is kind of strange. And then he talks, he tells us about the nesters, and the nesters apparently have been showing up outside of his apartment, and we see some footage of these things, and holy fucking shit. We are pretty creepy, yeah. They look like people, but kind of fucked up.

SPEAKER_06 9:59

Like you know what the first thing I thought of was when I saw the one in this video was the fucking thumbnail we used for uh the uh the Russian sleep experiment.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

Oh yeah. You know that thing? The thing that's like I think I think their faces look I think their faces all look like um like old like 1940s Halloween masks or something, you know? They got that kind of vibe to their faces, it's very strange.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Sorry. Um yeah, yeah, they're like uh but it looks more realistic than that. I don't know. It's there are people that just have like empty features and they look like their eye sockets are like black and stuff, and they just be staring at him. So like they're creeping on him pretty hardcore. There's like shots uh outside of his window, and these things are fucking like leaning around corners and shit, just like dead ass staring at him, and we are only like 51 seconds into a 30-minute video at this point, and uh, it's already like I want to know more, which is kind of sick. So uh anyway, he goes on to continue narrating and just like kind of bypasses that pretty quickly, and he's just like, anyway, so I realized that the problems were not really the place that I was in, but it was my routine. So he decided that he needs to leave, which is kind of contradictory because if it's the routine and not the place, why does he need to leave? But I guess he needs to create a new routine somewhere else. But anyway, this kind of sets the tone that there's more going on here to this story than just like the people disappearing and the nesters and stuff. There's also something going on with him, like there's something, there's some sort of story going on about his mental place that he's in. So he lets us know that he's going upstate to his childhood home. So I already mentioned that this is in our and around the Albany, New York area, but this sort of confirms that in universe this is New York. So uh he tells us that the population in the suburbs where he's going is lower, which means that there are fewer nesters. And this is where we learn a little bit about the nesters through this hint, which it kind of suggests that the population of the nesters is related to the population of the area that they're in, which might mean that they are or once were people. Um, so anyway, he tells us about the house uh and tells us that it's vacant, and he says that it makes him feel safer because there are fewer places to hide and fewer reasons to move. Um and he says that he's gone into other houses before and thought that he was alone, but there were nesters there. Um this is it's sort of out of order here, but um anyway, he said he tells us that if he's going down, he wants to go down here in his childhood home. So now we go back to um his journey to the house. So he tells he decides to walk some empty interstates and he shows us that, which is really impressive because he's like, and when I say impressive, I mean like impressive in the sense of how this was filmed, because he's just dead ass standing on like a two-lane highway, and there is nothing around, there's no people, there's no cars.

SPEAKER_04 13:41

I have my theories, but either way, it's like two at first, there there's a couple scenes, and this isn't too much of a spoiler, but there's a couple scenes of him being in like a store by himself. I'm like, okay, he he probably works there or has someone that works there that was able to let him in and and be there to film a couple things late at night or what have you. But yeah, it's like he's he's out on the highway, right? And there's nobody around like that.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

That kind of shit is way more difficult to be able to pull off, yeah, and like shots of like streets in Albany and stuff that are just completely devoid of people.

SPEAKER_06 14:16

Yeah, not super spoiler, but there's a part and a target later on, too, that it's just empty, and I'm like, how how either the place he's going is just like super slow and dead, or like he's doing very good editing.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Yeah, right. Yeah, he could be editing and like cutting people out, which I imagine had to have taken just a shitload of time. Um, or he's just conveniently there's a there's there's a movie that's filmed that way. Is it the 28 days later or something?

SPEAKER_04 14:47

Yeah, 28 days later, yeah.

Nestors Outside The Apartment

SPEAKER_02 14:48

Yeah. Anyway, so uh we continue on our journey to his childhood home. Uh he shows us a lake next to the interstate that he was on, and um we see a house that's on this lake, and then he decides to wander off through the woods. So he's walking through the woods and he starts talking about how he's afraid of nesters, and he shows us this radio that he carries around. And this radio somehow has the ability to hear nesters. Um apparently that it has like a five-mile radius, and if you lose it on, he can hear nesters approaching him or getting close to him. He's also using an analog map to try to navigate around. Um, and so as he's walking through the woods, he hears some nesters and he starts taking off running, and he eventually finds an empty house that is not his childhood home, but he decides to crash there, and so he just kind of wanders into the house and he looks around and he seems to think that the house is empty, but it 100 P is not because at about six minutes and 15 seconds, you see he's shining a light down a dark hallway, and there's some boy creeping around the corner that he does not notice.

SPEAKER_04 16:02

Yeah, this all takes place at like night too, because he was like, Oh, I'm gonna go out on uh an adventure through the forest, and he ends up going way farther than he thought he did, and he's just like, Oh, I'm fucked, I gotta find shelter.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Right, yeah. Um, so he decides that he's gonna crash in this empty house, and so he goes to bed on the couch, and as he's sleeping on the couch, you can hear like a noise in the background. Um, so he wakes up later in that in the night at 3 14 in the morning to his radio making a bunch of noise. But he seemingly wakes up again unharmed the next morning, and he shows us a view from the house. And this is a house that appears to be on the lake that uh he was showing us earlier, and it's like a gorgeous view of this like frozen over lake in the winter. It's very cool. Which makes me like, how'd he get into these houses? Are these his friends' houses? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 17:10

It is upstate New York. Maybe it maybe on the lake property is cheap up there.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Yeah, I mean, I guess if he filmed this in like January, these could be people's vacation homes and like nobody's around in January.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

Before I found out this was filled in New York, I thought it was Alaska with how remote everything is and how much access he had to shit. I thought it was like, oh, this is Alaska, it low popular populace anyway.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

Like he could probably get away with some shit, but no, yeah, it's well upstate New York is not very densely populated, and especially in the middle of the winter, I'm sure there are a lot of people who leave. So yeah, true. I guess it kind of makes sense. So anyway, he wakes up seemingly unharmed, and he seems to find, or maybe he has, I don't know if this is addressed, a a CB radio, like in the house that he's talking into, and he says something like uh breaker 19, this is tricky spinner. Do you copy? And I don't know what significance this has. Like, is there some other person that he thinks he's talking to through this C B radio, or is he just fucking around? The the this radio, I think, does come up again later in another video, but I don't know if it's explained where it came from.

SPEAKER_04 18:24

I think I think he mentions that he found it in the house.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Okay, so it was just in this house.

SPEAKER_04 18:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

I must have missed that. So anyway, he ditches this house and he takes off and he keeps walking, and the sun eventually sets again, and this time he decides to crash into a diner. Uh, he shows us the diner, which again, completely empty, looks like people just kind of disappeared off the face of the earth. He makes some coffee, and then the next day he finally makes it to his childhood home, and he starts to walk up to the house and he discovers some footprints in the snow, and he's like, Well, now I gotta be careful. This could be a Nester. And this brings up a question that I had because he says these footprints could be a Nester, which means they also could be something else, which either means he hasn't given up hope that other people are wandering around somewhere, or he knows that there's something else that could have made these footprints that is not a Nestor. Anywhere.

SPEAKER_07 19:33

Suspenseful.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

Suspenseful. So he shows us how he decides to enter an empty building. So he's like, this is a strategy that I have for entering empty buildings. The first thing I do is I leave a radio on the windowsill. I open a window, I leave the radio on the windowsill, which is interesting because he's like, This is how I enter an empty building. But he's already entered an empty house before and shown us how he did it. The last time he just walked in through the front door. He was like, Yeah, I'm going in here.

SPEAKER_06 20:06

But a brand I like how he's also like, Oh, I'm gonna put this actually keep radio code these things. I like yeah, I like that you brought that up because there's some stuff that's said later on that I think is pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

I like how he's like, I I leave a radio at the window, and uh this draws nesters towards it, so I know if there's any in there, and he just gets like 10 feet away, like it's gonna help.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

Right. If these things have any sort of like mobility at all, you're you've you're fucked, man.

SPEAKER_06 20:34

Yeah, and then he's out of radio, right?

SPEAKER_03 20:36

Yeah, then he's out of radio.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Yeah, what do they take the radio?

SPEAKER_03 20:38

Now you got no radio, but and also didn't we establish that you can hear them on the radio so you know if there's one near you, right? Exactly. Why's he gotta leave the yeah? There's so many questions.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

This analog horse sucks.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Yeah, I I also I also was really bothered by this for various reasons. One, because he says this is how he enters buildings, and this is clearly not how he enters every building. Two, yeah, why can't he just hear the nesters if there are nesters?

SPEAKER_04 21:02

I let a lot of shit go, but and this is by no means saying that this uh this story keeps doing this, but yeah, I let a lot of shit go. But when I'm watching a show or a movie or something and they kind of break their own lore, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:17

Like that, where it's if you're gonna establish lore just to break it, why I don't like it.

SPEAKER_04 21:22

Exactly. It kind of throws me off. I'm like, I don't care about this anymore. Like you you established the radio can hear them, so you shouldn't need to put the radio next to the windowsill to lure one out. You should know that they're there.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Yeah, yeah. I I think it was a bad idea to establish that he has radar because it it ha it becomes an issue that he's gonna have to overcome several times as this progresses. But anyway. So he leaves his radio next to the fucking window, and I guess he determines that this means the fact that nothing showed up means that it's all clear. Um, so he goes inside. And he wanders around and he decides that the coast is all clear inside the house. So he's just kind of like walking around in the basement and shit, and then he like walks upstairs. And um he sets up camp. And there's like it this goes on for a bit with some like super irrelevant shit about like how to start a fire and stuff. Uh this is kind of this whole sequence is kind of long-winded, in my opinion. Um but he talks about setting up fire, he shows us how he sets up a fire, and then shit kind of hits the fan because he's like, Oh no, I done fucked up. I didn't check the whole house, and he shows us that in the basement there's this little bitty closet that he didn't open when he came in, and there is a sleeping bag and like some gross black shit all over the wall in this little closet, and he's like, uh, this is a nest. So apparently these nesters be making nests in the place the places that they nest in. And he's like, Well, I don't know if this is an active nest or not, but there's a sleeping bag, and they never leave their sleeping bag behind. And uh he convinces himself that even though that is the case, that this nest is not actually active, and there's nothing actually living here, and so he decides to stay here anyway. So he makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich and he goes to bed.

SPEAKER_06 23:38

Seems like a bold fucking move there.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Right, yeah. He's like, uh, I'm really afraid of these things. My whole life revolves around avoiding these things. I'm just gonna roll the dice and hope that even though there's proof that one of these things has been here, that it's not still here. So he lays out his own sleeping bag and then he says, This seems like a good place to nest. And then he goes to bed.

SPEAKER_04 24:05

Also, the worst spot to fall asleep. The hardwood, my guy?

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Not only that, he picks the largest room in the house with nothing to hide behind. Get in a closet, multiple entrances. Like this bad strats, my guy. Bad strats. How did you live this whole time? I also I mentioned the grilled cheese sandwich, but he also he shows us like his whole process of making the fucking grilled cheese sandwich and shit. Um, and then so in the middle of the night, he wakes up and he hears some shit, and he's like, Well now fuck, now I gotta go check out the basement. So he goes over to the basement door and he opens it and he looks down into the basement, and then he's like, Hey! Anybody down there? Which again, this guy's this guy's surviving Yeah, what are you doing, my man?

SPEAKER_04 25:04

Also, oh again, pissing me off, dude, because he he takes us on a tour of this whole house and he's like, Oh, here's all these other rooms, here's the attic that only has one way in, and it's this ladder that I can pull up with me. And he decides to sleep on a wooden floor, and then he finds this fucking nester, and he's just instead of being like, I'm just gonna go sleep in this safe attic because I know it's safe and it can't get me. He's just goes, What are you doing down there?

SPEAKER_06 25:33

Yeah, yeah, this nest is empty, but you know, maybe it's not.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

Quit antagonizing it.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

You know these things are lethal, like right, these this guy's alone. This guy's survival instincts are wild.

SPEAKER_06 25:46

Survival instincts of a fart.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Yeah. Anyway, so he's staring down into this basement in this corridor, and he doesn't hear anything respond, and he doesn't see anything, so he's like, Alright, whatever. Coast is clear. And then he goes to close the door, and he does not notice this, but the camera pans away, and then as he's closing the door, it kind of we see through the crack in the door, and there is one hundred pee, somebody standing at the bottom of the stairs. Just looking up at him.

SPEAKER_05 26:22

And I'm gonna make a grilled cheese.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

I'm gonna go make another grilled cheese. Anyway, so there's toast somebody in the house with him.

SPEAKER_04 26:34

And so my guy, you are in a survival situation. Grilled cheese is not what you make, and you need to make like high protein, uh fibrous fucking meals. You need something that's gonna give you some oomph because you're gonna be wearing out of energy fast.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Have you made a binder or something later? Yeah, we'll get to it. Wisconsin runs on cheese, and they're a hearty people, so they're doing something. You got me there.

The Archivist And Backrooms Setup

SPEAKER_04 26:59

Beer and cheese. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

All right. Yeah, there you go. That's all you need. So, anyway, um, that's kind of the end of our trip with this guy, and then we get a video at the end of this whole shebang where we mate meet a lady called the Archivist. And she's like, What's up, gamers? Um We we get like this blue screen that has uh a bunch of credits um from the Patreon, and we meet this lady who calls herself the arc the archivist, and she says that this is footage that was found of a subject, and she wants people to give her feedback on what footage should be released next. So um there is a comment that says we recovered this near the Pennsylvania dig site. The survivor seems to be mapping a pattern I don't understand. Did these locations look familiar to anyone, or is he somewhere we can't reach him? What are your theories? Now, everybody's big question. The big question, right? What the fuck is going on here? Can I steal the description of the first video in chronological order or in upload order? Because I feel like that's one of the things if you watch this in chronological order and you lose.

SPEAKER_06 28:20

Is my video technically the first upload?

SPEAKER_02 28:23

I believe so, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:24

Then yeah, yeah, go ahead. I don't care.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

So the description on the first uploaded video says this backrooms found footage documents a subject's survival against the nesters during a quiet apocalypse. As he navigates this empty world, a single mistake reveals his location to the things watching him from the liminal spaces. So between the archivists and what she says in comments and the description this description of this video, we can kind of put together that it seems like this guy has ended up in some sort of liminal backrooms type situation where there ain't nobody there except for these nester things.

SPEAKER_04 29:06

That's also the description on like all the videos, too, by the way. That's on both of mine.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

It is not on this one.

SPEAKER_06 29:14

Oh hockey. Sick. Sick tits, bro.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

Sick tits.

SPEAKER_06 29:19

Um, well, that being said, you want me to take over?

SPEAKER_02 29:23

No, I just want to ramble for a while.

SPEAKER_06 29:26

I was I was just making sure. I wasn't sure if you're done yet.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

No, I'm done.

Mall Exploration And Odd Replays

SPEAKER_06 29:29

Um, all right, so video two in chronological order is now just called The World Is Finally Empty. Um, which is kind of similar to Matt's video, except with one less part. But uh either way, uh this is a 14-minute video as opposed to a half an hour. Um kind of same setup. He's just kind of the the way it's set up is he's just recapping things, and then you see the footage of it. Um, so it's now currently day four that he's been in the in the house, and he mentions that he has not seen anyone in about 81 days now. So day four in the house, at least 81 days since whatever has happened on Earth has happened. Um so he mentions that he's now going to head north into the hills, is what he says. Um, and he has uh he has like a like an actual physical map that he's kind of using to navigate. Uh, and before he leaves, he's just ominously like, hope I don't die out here, and like just kind of like goes on his merry way. Um as Matt mentioned in the last video, he's using his radio quite a bit, um, set to five miles to thwart dangers, and basically once he hears a noise, he'll just like change track. So at one point you see him kind of like holding up his radio, and he's like, nah, I don't like that shit, and just like starts going a different way. Um, he basically on this little adventure of his is brought to three different places. He goes to a mall, an underground concourse, and a museum. Um, again, he he does reiterate a lot of the information that we see from the first video into this one. Um, he mentions that the burbs are fully empty um as the population was lower there. Um, so he's kind of like walking through just like the suburbs and like noting that, like, oh, like some suburbs have their power still and some don't, and this and that. And so uh now that we know where he's going in this trip, uh, he begins with his first location, which is the mall. Um, we see that the mall is fully lit up inside, empty as shit, just full like huge mall, empty, which again leads me, leads us back to what we were talking about, how the fuck he did all this. But um actually, I mean, to be fair, there's a lot of dead malls out there right now, so it's pretty pretty.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

Oh, yeah, there is of all the things it would be easy to find sitting in this series. This would probably be the one.

SPEAKER_06 32:09

Um, this mall looks kind of nice though, so I don't know, either way. But so all the lights are on, um, super empty. We get a lot of shots with him in view, not just like him filming things, which I like because it it makes him a little more personable throughout this whole series. Because he'll be like, All right, I'm at the mall, and like you know, in any other film, you just see them filming the mall, but like he's setting up shots to like show him just like putzing around and like doing random shit. Um, and it kind of leads kind of leads us into a uh like to question where our protagonist's head truly is at sometimes. Um, but that being said, he ends up hearing this noise, and he's like, Well, I gotta go, I gotta go figure out what the fuck this noise is. So he starts walking around and he basically comes up to like an abandoned arcade, essentially. Um and uh all of the shit is intact still uh and just like fully functional. And it's pretty pretty funny because he's like, damn, I really wish I had some quarters. And to be fair, if I was in the situation, he was at an ATM, I would have busted, or actually it was like a quarter machine, but I would have busted that thing fucking wide open and just took the quarters. Like, what's gonna happen, you know? But uh either way, he's uh he walks around the arcade for a little while, just kind of like reminiscing and you know mulling shit over, and then um he comes up to uh like a custodial hallway with like a bunch of fucking doors in it. Um and they're all locked, and he's kind of just trying to see. I guess he's just kind of testing the waters of what he can get into and what he can't get into. Um but uh basically we haven't seen any nesters yet. We haven't seen any nesters in the mall so far. Um, he spends a lot of his time in the mall just kind of monologuing and like longing for things that he can't have anymore. Like he points out some restaurants that he's like, I sure wish I could eat here, or like he sure does love a monologue, I tell you what. He does be loving a monologue. Um I know I mentioned that I I don't I don't think we see any nesters in that hallway that I was talking about, but there sure are a lot of replays on that section, and I I didn't see anything myself to be fair, but uh yeah, just stuff to keep in mind. So, like the mall right now seems to be empty as far as that goes. Yeah, the replays um didn't make sense to me either.

SPEAKER_04 34:38

I think that it's creepy looking, maybe.

SPEAKER_06 34:40

And people I'm sure people were just replaying it a bunch, and yeah. So uh we finally find the source of a weird noise that he's been hitting up.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Yeah, right thing.

Mr Whiteout Starts Following

SPEAKER_06 34:54

Um, so we end up finally hitting the source of this like weird noise that he's been hearing, and it ends up being a recording of someone who had been there in the past um in like some office essentially. Um he mentions he spent about an hour and a half in the mall in total, and then he just randomly drops this fucking bomb on us where he's like, Yeah, so um there's this guy that's following me around, and his name is Mr. Whiteout, and uh he keeps seeing him, and he's just been like kind of slowly moving toward me. And then like he's like, All right, well, anyways, I went to this other place and like just totally brushes it off. Like, it doesn't matter that he just said the creepiest shit that he said the entire show so far.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Like Mr.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

X following him, and he's just like, Yeah, a very slender man type character.

SPEAKER_06 35:42

Yeah, yeah. He literally shows like a little video of it. I can't find it. I'm on the video right now, but basically you just see this like guy. Oh, it's he's just like a guy in a field, like kind of really far away.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

Yeah, walking through the mall, too, which is like oh yeah, he does actually.

SPEAKER_06 36:01

Is that was that supposed to be him? Yeah, oh yeah, no, totally, it totally is him. Okay, I actually didn't catch that the first playthrough. I just thought it was him. So yeah, like it plays that clip of him in the mall, him out in the field, and then totally just brushes over.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

He also doesn't explain why he's called Mr. Whiteout, even though he's completely black. But I my head canon is that he just somehow knows that he does a lot of cocaine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, for sure, for sure. He's just walking around, just following him and just judging by his coke nail, I called him Mr.

SPEAKER_06 36:34

Whiteout. He kept sniffling as he got closer to me. Um, so yeah, again, man just brushes over that and he's like, Alright, so then I went to concourse B. Um basically, this this bit's a little bit shorter, but he's like, Yeah, there's lots of weird passages that connect random businesses beneath the city. Um, he's like, I was expecting to hear trains and cars, but there was nothing there. And so basically, I I don't know, I'm not really sure what exactly this is, but it looks like a big underground, like like if you were in a big city and instead of having everything up above you where all the cars and stuff are, it's like underneath, and it's just all underground. So it's like a bunch of businesses, restaurants, etc. And he's like, I sure would like to eat at this burger place, but he's like, catch me behind the fryer, and those nesters will get you real quick. And I was just like, hmm. So yeah, so basically, he just doesn't want to get too deep in these tunnels, he doesn't want to get lost, and he needs to be able to go back outside if he needs to fairly quickly, um, so he can, you know, get home and do his thing. Um, but keep in mind, he's now walked to a mall, spent a bunch of time in the mall, and now he's at this concourse, um, and he's walking around. We get a bunch of more commentary on some random stuff, and then this like horrible fucking noise happens, and he's like, Oh, well, I guess I should probably leave because I'm three hours away from my home now. So that terrible noise that's now inside of this underground tunnel with me uh was pretty spooky, but uh let's get going, gang. And like just happy go lucky, couldn't couldn't bat an eye at the whole at anything, it seems like. Um and then he mentions that uh the next stop on his on his little journey was a a taxidermy museum. So in between the concourse B and the taxidermy museum, he decided that he's gonna do a little goofing. He's gonna do a little goofing outside with a shopping cart. And some stuff happens. So he's he was dicking around for about two hours. So we already learned that he's been gone for about three hours, and now he's added two hours of doing nothing to the list, but it's now a bit too late for him to walk back. So while he's goofing off, I have to mention this because it's also creepy as all hell, he gets on his radio, and there's like an ad, like an somehow he gets an ad for an ice cream shop. There's nobody around, and it's just like I if like if you somehow can insert that noise into the clip, please do, but like it's like demonic, it's just like a demon being like, come get ice cream, and like I don't actually remember what it says exactly, but it's it's totally totally terrible. But uh either way, he goes in like into the ice cream place and just takes a bunch of ice cream pints out and like starts eating the ice cream. It's kind of silly, but um, so yeah, he's dicked around completely, too much time has passed, and now um it's very, very dark out. So he's walking towards this this or well he on his way to the museum, he finds basically uh a playground out of that comes out of nowhere, and he just spends the night inside the slide in like a little makeshift shelter.

SPEAKER_04 40:05

Which no you didn't. Did you do you see what that slide looks like?

SPEAKER_06 40:08

It's a fucking oh yeah, no, it's like he would have been sleeping upright. Yeah. Uh it's fine. I mean, for the sake of of it being weird, sure.

SPEAKER_02 40:19

What I really wish he would have done was gone to is it in Boston that slide that they had to like Yeah, that they that was like a danger to the public because you go so fast down it. Just like a random clip of him just firing out of the end of that thing.

SPEAKER_06 40:35

That'd be incredible. Yeah, that'd be fucking sick. Um so I lost my place. Yeah, okay, so yeah, so he sleeps in the slide, and basically he gets through the night fine, and in the morning he finally makes it to his destination.

SPEAKER_02 40:51

So talk about the fucking random like half a second clip of the thing that's like running at him.

SPEAKER_05 40:59

Oh yeah, where is that? Hold on. It's at 1034. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:10

It looks like a borderline.

Concourse Tunnels And Radio Horror

SPEAKER_06 41:12

It does. It looks like yeah, it does look like the borderline. Yeah, so there's there's like a literally a two-second clip while he's talking about, you know, having gone through the night fine where you see like a rampaging nestor just like sprint sprinting at him like on camera. So it's blocks it off. He doesn't even really mention it. Like, I don't know. Our our our boy's losing it, right? So um, yeah, so he makes it to the taxidermy place, and he does a lot of talking right here. Um, and you can tell that like he's seeing all these like you know, mannequins and like still motion animals and stuff, and that it's like kind of getting to him, and then he's like he's like talking to them, like kind of expecting a response, and like you can tell this dude is just like lonely. I mean, he's gotta be at about you know 85 days by himself. He definitely fucked one of the woman mannequins. Oh, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

Well, dude, why do you think he's going to the taxidermy museum?

SPEAKER_06 42:21

Yeah, right. He's like, I gotta find me a flesh lot. Um so basically, yeah, you just the rest of him being at the taxidermy, although you know, it's a creepy museum. Uh he's just he a lot he lets a lot of emotions out, a lot of trivial things he's talking about. Um, this is definitely a motif throughout the series. You're gonna hear him just do this a lot. Um he kind of I don't know, he starts to like he he doesn't really get afraid of nesters or like get spooked by the nesters. He sometimes doesn't even see the nesters, but you get him in a mall and his all of his feelings are gonna come out, you know what I'm saying? Um, and that's just something that like we kind of learn about him as we go through this journey.

SPEAKER_04 43:05

Orange Julius does that to a man.

SPEAKER_06 43:09

Yeah, so yeah, I guess so. So once he leaves the taxidermy, uh his whole walk home, he basically was like, Yeah, I was just thinking about nesters and how they can become hostile very quickly. And he's like, Yeah, they look human, and you know, as soon as a nestor is you know found somewhere, or or as soon as a nestor gets in something, it starts to infest and it like more follow. Um and he says he didn't find anyone while he was out, but we clearly saw him being chased down by one at the park.

SPEAKER_04 43:39

Um, and then he saw hat guy, Mr.

SPEAKER_06 43:42

Whiteout, like yeah, and and then he kind of mentions that he's like, you know what? I think I might head towards the water, um, maybe south. So maybe in some future video, we'll see him venturing south. But um as of right now, uh he's really focused. On Nestors and like where they're from and how they they act, and he's just kind of he's kind of he's stuck in his head about this, and I don't know, we'll see more as it comes. And then at the end of the video, we get the classic blue screen, but we don't get any message from the archivist. So that is where that video ends.

SPEAKER_02 44:21

As I was initially clicking through this video before I watched the whole thing, some of the shots like the Taxi Army Museum. I I thought were a Rainforest Cafe, and I was gonna be super impressed that he got the inside of a Rainforest Cafe without any people in it.

SPEAKER_04 44:34

Not that hard anymore, I I feel.

Taxidermy Museum Loneliness Peak

SPEAKER_06 44:37

Um, I will read the description on this video real quick, though, and it says I've watched these tapes countless times, especially when editing them, to the point where everything blurs together. I need fresh, sharp eyes to take a look and notice anything I might have missed. Do you see anything that tells us more about where he or is or the theories about this voided world? Please comment below. Archive Entry 2 follows a subject during his third month of isolation as he discovers a hand-drawn map leading to several empty places, blah blah blah blah blah. Just a world recap. Um and uh the the comments don't really I don't think we really saw too much of the nesters in this one. Um, because no one really commented on any like timestamps or anything, but uh yeah, essentially, you know, that's that's really it on this one.

SPEAKER_04 45:22

So well, okay.

SPEAKER_02 45:26

Big swag.

SPEAKER_04 45:27

Well, alright. Big swag. It's my turn now. So the next video in chronological order is called Nestor's Found Me. And I think uh I think he's starting to lose it. Yeah, I think he's starting to lose it a bit more at this point, too, because he says that it's been uh eight days rather than the eighty some odd that he said before. So I think he's starting to lose track of just time in general. Are you sure he's not talking about the days in the house? Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe a day, days in the house. That could be it. I was confused by that, but that makes sense, I suppose.

SPEAKER_06 46:01

Um, because my video was four days, so it's very possible that that makes more sense than that.

SPEAKER_04 46:06

Confused me at first. I was like, oh, he must be my boy must be losing it. Um, but he for context, I don't know if Matt uh mentioned it before when he found the house, but the the house had no power. He didn't have a way of turning the power on in the house. He could he had the gas working to make like a grilled cheese and shit, but he couldn't get the lights to turn on. Well, he found a way. Uh so he was able to get the lights turned on, but he made the grilled cheese in a fireplace.

SPEAKER_02 46:30

That's why he had to start the fire.

SPEAKER_04 46:31

Uh uh, but uh uh he got the lights to work, but he accidentally turned them on one night and a nestor saw and found him. And he shows like a Nestor basically outside his door his his window, his door, or what have you, just chilling. He's like, Yep, he found me. Um but we don't have time for that. We're hungry. Our tumbleys are rumblies, and we have to go to the grocery store because we have to make a chicky parm tonight, boys. So we go to the store, and in proper fashion for this whole thing, there's nobody there. It's uh pretty quiet. All the produce and everything looks good to go still, which is remarkable for it being 80 some odd days in the apocalypse. Um and uh he's he's walking to the deli and he zooms in on a picture of a cow in the deli. Is it symbolism? Symbolism? Probably symbolism. I have no fucking idea. I'm assuming it's some form of symbolism for like, oh, we're all cattle, you know. Oh, these are the the the nesters are cattle, and this is capitalism, something another. Or I'm looking too into it, and he just thought it was a funny looking picture of a cow. Who knows? But after we go shopping, we could pick up our ingredients.

SPEAKER_02 47:48

I didn't think about the cow so much as I thought about the fact that he buys raw chicken and has apparently been with by himself in this universe for like three months, and this raw chicken has presumably been sitting there.

SPEAKER_06 48:04

Yep. I have I've seen so many comments on these videos about that exact thing where they're like they're like, I think it's more scary that the store is just stocked all the time with fresh food. Yeah, like the nesters are one thing, but the the the stores restocking every night is is what's scarier to me.

SPEAKER_03 48:24

Who who's stocking? Who's killing the chickens? Where are these chickens?

SPEAKER_04 48:30

The nesters, they uh What does the cow mean? They keep it all going, they they have to keep society running somehow.

SPEAKER_02 48:37

Um there's just guys just kid just cutting chickens' heads off.

unknown 48:42

Yeah.

Nestor Found Me Home Traps

SPEAKER_04 48:44

Yeah. It's like uh if you play the new Resident Evil game, they they keep like even though they're zombies, they keep like a part of who they were and they all still do like their job that they had before they died. That's exactly what the Nestors are doing.

SPEAKER_09 48:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:56

Um, so he grabs uh all his shit that he needs uh to make chicken parm and he heads back home. And now that we're home, it's time to home alone Kevin McAllister, this bitch. It's time to fortify these bonds, dog. Fortify this house. He's setting up tripwires with knives, and he did it the wrong way. My guy, it's so easy to do this. First and foremost, he sets up a tripwire, he's like, Yeah, they'll fall, and then they'll just land on this perfectly placed knife, and it's like dude, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Diabolical.

SPEAKER_04 49:27

You set up the tripwire, you set up the tripwire so when they hit it, it comes flying down from the door frame into their head. You don't make them trip on the wire onto the knife.

SPEAKER_06 49:37

I feel like that doesn't work right. You have to have like a wooden plank with a knife on it, because like exactly streams. Well, he fucks it up because that's what Mike's getting to.

SPEAKER_04 49:48

So that happens, he gets a tape recorder uh that he has set up to lure Nestors into a room, and he's got a bow and arrow like on prepton ready. It's just the most common, it gets even worse in later videos, but like this is the most convoluted home and home alone shit I've ever seen in my life. He has a tape recorder set up to where if Vanester hits a wire, it'll play the recorder, and he's like, Oh, please don't come in the bathroom. This is where I am. And then, like, if they go in there, he's like, I got a fucking bow and arrow set up with a fucking like red eye or like infrared laser or something to where if they cross it, it shoots them. Because apparently he's a fucking engineer all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

He's trying as hard as to like jigsaw the situation.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Yeah, he's got a porch door rigged up with gasoline and matches, but in the most despicable way, he's got like he's got like a a can of gasoline like taped upside down onto like part of the porch door, and he's like, I unscrewed it just enough to where it's got a steady, small drip of gasoline, and I got the matches on the door. So if they open it, it it starts the match and it it hits the gasoline.

SPEAKER_02 51:12

And I'm like, you are the friction is supposed to light the matches, and then you are begging for the worst disaster to happen to you.

SPEAKER_06 51:21

And if it works, then his house burns down.

SPEAKER_02 51:23

Yeah, it's just gonna light this whole fucking like fence thing on fire.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

Yeah, just the funniest fucking thing. I did not expect this, but I'm 100% here for it. Yeah, well, I didn't think he would go Kevin McAllister on us.

SPEAKER_02 51:38

Yeah, I think it's like intentionally like a representation of his mental state.

SPEAKER_04 51:44

Oh, yeah, 100%. The the bow and the bone arrow really really did it for me. I was I was laughing pretty good at that one. Uh, but anyway, it's dinner time now after all that fucking doomsday prepping. It's parm time. It's parm time. Uh we basically cut to a food network show now because my guy gives a whole ass tutorial and how to make a mean chicken parm. Yeah, and I'm not kidding. It's like 12 minutes long of him making this chicken parm.

SPEAKER_02 52:16

Not really if you really need to learn how to make chicken parm, but you're you want more JPEG in that experience.

SPEAKER_04 52:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

Boy, have we got the video for you.

SPEAKER_04 52:27

Yeah, it's it's my god, nothing, nothing really like you would think he would talk about other shit during this. He doesn't, it's quite literally just how to make a chicken parm. Uh, but that it is what it is. He's eating the chicken parm, and now we go on to tangent time. So as he's sitting down, he's eating this chicken parm, he goes on these rants about restaurants and how he misses people cooking for him. Uh, he also mentions uh conversations with others that about how he misses having conversations with others, but he does not miss being in debt to people, as he calls it. Uh, and he kind of goes into detail with this, saying things like uh how selfish people are about your personal time, and about how a boss at a job tries to squeeze you dry of all of your time. He he that he he's basically telling you about an experience he had with a bad boss and how the boss was just a shitty boss. That's pretty much what he's getting at here. Uh, he talks about how money, he believes money ruined people and made them super selfish. Um, he mentions that in past jobs he felt like he was just a cog in the machine. Uh, how jobs seem to like to see their employees suffer and not really be in a good mood. Um, he mentions how he likes his alone time and how a lot of people take alone time for granted. He states he never had a cell phone uh because he didn't want to be available all the time, even to his own family. But people these days expect you to be available all the time.

SPEAKER_06 54:11

So it seems like it's turning out to be a sequel to Home Alone.

SPEAKER_04 54:16

That kind of.

SPEAKER_06 54:18

He's like, I don't want any family, and then they all go to Paris or something. Yeah, and then he has to booby trap the house.

Chicken Parm And Anti Work Spiral

SPEAKER_04 54:25

Everyone goes to Paris in the entire world. He uh he then talks about again how people like are uh people these days expect you to be available all the time. So whenever people would ask if you know he he would hang out with them or if he was available, he would just lie to them, he'd pretend to be busy. Uh, he says he didn't want to grow with modern times, he just wants to rest. And he really opens up about how he felt selfish for wanting to be alone and wanting his time back to himself. And he he seems to have hated that about himself and still does. Uh, it made him feel a lot of self-loathing to himself. He he brings up that he never shared anything with others uh because he didn't want to pester them or bother them with his problems. He mentions that his brother died and he never shared that pain with anybody, he never really talked about it because again, he thought sharing his emotions were like a burden onto other people. Uh, so he he he really fucking goes off the deep end here uh into some pretty dark territory. Uh and then he mentions that like after his whole rant, it's like two o'clock in the morning, and he's like, Well, it's bedtime. Except it's not, baby, because he's woken up by a light outside, and uh, it ain't sirens motherfucker, it's a fire. He looks out the window, he's like, Oh fuck, dude. And he opens the door, he's like, God, and he looks over, and there's just a nester just cooking. He damn he he motherfucking boy cooked a nester, um, and it's like sitting there. I can't tell if this is like a budgetary issue or like how they filmed it or something. Two things are happening here. One, you think this guy had a budget?

SPEAKER_02 56:15

Yeah, maybe the studio just couldn't approve this, is what you're saying. You think?

SPEAKER_04 56:19

Yeah, but um well, I can't tell what's going on too much in this shot. Either A, it's supposed to be a nester is on fire and it's like screaming that it's on fire and in pain. Because you see a nestor and it's like, oh, but like the the fire that's it looks like it's coming from like a fire pit or something behind the nester. Yeah, so is it that a nester's on fire and another one's there like screaming like it's like it's like sad that this other nester is on fire, like it's mourning.

SPEAKER_02 56:52

I think it's supposed to look like this nester is on fire, and right for for because the studio wouldn't sign off on it, he couldn't light a person on fire to film this stuff.

SPEAKER_04 57:00

Yeah, he tried to line up the shot to where it looked. Yeah, he tried to line up a fire pit so it looked like it was on its back or something.

SPEAKER_06 57:05

To be fair, there's a lot of glitching in this this shot too, like right before.

I Do Not Want To Improve

SPEAKER_04 57:12

Yeah, but um but that's where we cut. He just let he lit a dude on fire. Yeah, and it's literally doing that, it's like ooh, very weird. Um and we cut away. That's that for that video. Uh the next one is called I don't want to get better.

SPEAKER_06 57:30

Oh, I hate the fucking intro to this. It's so terrible.

SPEAKER_04 57:33

So he's I mean, I I I if I'm being honest, I skipped over most of it. I just kind of took general notes here for this one because it is just general.

SPEAKER_06 57:42

It's not no, the bet that's not the bad video. It's literally the first shot of oh, you're talking about the nest. That's exactly what you see. Yeah, I hate it.

SPEAKER_04 57:50

Yeah, so the first shot the first shot is a shot that we get at the end of the video, but the first shot is of like this nestor, like he's like gets a shot of one with his camera, like through like what looks like a bush, a b bushel, and it's a nestor, and it was it the one with his mouth open, like yeah, he's like yeah, he's got his mouth open, his hands on his face, he's like, ooh. It's like a pink skinned man. It it looks like it looks it looks like fucking uh what's his name? Dumb dumbass, the the the dwarf, the dumb one. Dimbo. What's his name? Dumbo? What no the the dwarf from from Snow White? What's his name? Dum Dimbly Dingus.

unknown 58:32

Dingus.

SPEAKER_04 58:33

What's his name? The dumb one. I couldn't know. Dim Dimpy. Dumpy.

SPEAKER_06 58:38

I forgot to keep saying names.

SPEAKER_02 58:40

Yeah, he'll get there eventually, I believe. Whatever. To me, it looks like have you ever seen that 3D animated uh like him away downtown. You got it, you got it.

SPEAKER_04 58:55

Oh no, you're talking about uh going to the grocery store. Yeah, going to the grocery store. That's what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 58:59

Yeah, it looks like the guy from that just yeah.

SPEAKER_06 59:04

It's just the scream, the painting.

SPEAKER_04 59:06

You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh but he's back at the cabin that he found the first episode or the the first uh um video, and uh this whole video is him opening up about his flaws. Uh basically, it's about how he feels like he needs to change his outlook on life, but he doesn't want to. He knows his outlook is hurting him, but he doesn't really care that it's hurting him. Uh he claims that he's always wanted to tell someone this that like that that he doesn't he's he's always wanted to open up to people about how he just doesn't really give a shit, but he's always been afraid that people would abandon him for talking about that kind of stuff. Uh he's because it turns out his number one fear is people abandoning him. He even relates how he feels to like an addiction, how he's made himself into this type of person that was made to please others but never himself, and that he's tired of it. Um, he seems very cynical here. Like this is a different version of him that we've seen in other videos, like in uh uh Doug's where he's going to the museum and shit. He's acting kind of like a goofy guy. And this one he's he's cynical as shit, he's very distant. Uh, he says that now he can be whatever he wants to be. The world is his now, but he's just he just has this look of like emptiness on his face because it's real bipolar, yeah. Because like again, this whole thing is about how he he knows he should like be a better person, but he doesn't want to be a better person, and that is what he's signaling to or what he's like comparing to like an addiction, because he knows the way that he is as he is now is toxic and not healthy, but he just doesn't care to change it, much like people in addiction. Like, if you're addicted to like cigarettes, for example, you're not huffing them because they're healthy, you know, it's part of addiction. You know, anyone that smokes a cigarette knows that it can cause cancer, they don't care, they're gonna smoke it anyway. You know, that's just how it is. Um, and that's what he relates it to. It's gotten to the point, his like cynicalism uh and like his like just empty feeling. It's gotten to the point where at the end of this video, he just casually is just like, there's a nester right there in those bushes, and that's the one that he he flips the camera, zooms in on it, and he's just like, Well, I guess I'll probably just uh I'll probably just go this way so he doesn't catch me. But he's just like points it out like he's bird watching. He's like, There's a red-crested wobble right there. He's got that kind of attitude where he's just like there it is, right there. And that's how the video ends. Like him just being like, All right, I guess I'll just meander this way so it doesn't catch me. Bye. It's very just cold.

Turning The House Into A Weapon

SPEAKER_06 1:01:54

Yeah, it's uh pretty pretty rough watch. But the best watch is coming up. Yeah, it's a pretty good video. So uh this one is called I Turn My House into a weapon. Um, and you you have to say it that way. Okay, like a missing beast. Come with me as I turn my house into a weapon. Um, all right, so video five. Uh he says, Day, I don't know since I've seen another human. It seems as he's lost track of times. And uh we get a little preview of of what he's going to be talking about in this video, and he goes, I was attacked by a nester today.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:39

And this nester can make it through my house without getting shot by a crossbow. I'll give him five hundred thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:47

Yeah, so I I I really did I wish he did the influencer thing in this, but uh so we get a little quick. Yeah, right. Just like a really high up shot of him, like from yeah. Um we see him uh we get a little quick snippet, uh, and we see him in a target and taking a bath, and then it goes log entry followed, and basically he starts to go into what had happened. So he spent some time in the morning reinforcing traps and baking cookies. Um, we get okay, so some of the comments on this video are really, really funny, and I put two down because I thought they were silly, but it was like someone just commented, babe, wake up, new episode of Sad Chef is out. And then someone was just like someone just goes, Man, this is a weird cooking channel. Um but uh yeah, so yeah, so a little recap, and we get to make sure the steak is not overcooked, much like I woke up and wanted some cookies and then realized I was too sad to make cookies. All right, so basically something has followed him back to the house. However, instead of learning about that, we get a cookie baking tutorial. So, couple minutes, he uh he's basically prepping the cookies. He's gonna bake them later when he gets back home because he's got some exploring to do. So uh he goes in through an actual like how to make cookies tutorial, and then uh he's kind of like, you know what? I think it's time to get going. Um, we're gonna let these cool down and uh I'm gonna head my way north, and we're gonna, you know, kind of go go towards this little place on the map, and it shows like a little picture, and it's he calls it the facility. Um looks like a screenshot of Metal Gear Solid. Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention there's a part during the tutorial where he's like, Oh, there's a fucking nester at the door. Uh and uh but uh yeah, so he's gone now. And he's like, sick, let's do this. And uh so he's gonna make his way north now, and uh we get a quick shot of a nester, actually. And it's like hospital clothes or something. I I I wanted to say he was like in a suit. It looks like he had like a like a collared. Yeah, he's in a suit. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:26

Uh what was I thinking of? There's one that looks like it's in like a like a nurse's outfit or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:30

Fucking Jehovah's Witnesses might be in this one.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:33

I don't know. But this one like is like straight up Slender Man. This one looks like Slender Man. Um, but yeah, so he makes it to this facility. I don't know why he calls it the facility, to be quite honest with you, but uh I'll I digress. So he's about to make his way in. The facility. The building. Um, so yeah, um, he makes his way in, which is just a Trail inside of a forest. Um, and basically, this place is just this like big ass open field. You do see a little building, which I assume is the facility. Um, but we never really go into it or anything. Basically, it's just a field full of statues and sculptures. Cube. Um pyramid. And this place really honestly, this is like some place that I would have gone back when I was younger, and I would have just smoked like the most amount of blunts that I could handle and like would have walked around because some of the sculptures in this place are fucking crazy style. Like, there's this like a big long tube with a goat head like carved at the end of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:43

So many girls have gotten finger banged in this location, I guarantee it.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:47

Oh, for sure, for sure. Big, big finger bang location spot. You know, you've you've heard of makeout point. I'm taking girls to get finger blasted at the facility, dog. Um get us back on track with that one. Fuck. Okay, so how do I get us back on track here? So yeah, he keeps seeing all these statues, he's just like making note of all these like you know uh things that he's seeing. Um there's like no sense of urgency at all on his end. He's just kind of having a good time. Um and then he's like he'll say he's just saying stuff like, Oh man, that fire at home tonight's gonna be nice and cozy. Can't wait to get back to to back to my home. And then um, he kind of goes over like a small recap of the videos up until that point for some reason. Um I don't really know why. Uh Mike is like broke right now. Um I have lost my place. Um, okay, I think I already said this, but he goes over a small recact uh recact. Wow, a recap of the past videos that we've already watched for whatever reason. He just like gives a small little like here. I did this, I did this thing, we did this thing, this thing's happened, and then it goes back to him exploring the facility. He notices like this little thing that has some books in it, and he starts to kind of go over how he used to love joking around and joking with people, and like that he loved to like laugh with someone, and then he starts to reminisce about his dad, who we find out's their name is Gail, and um while he was like talking about this elaborate joke that he used to play where he used to like dress up like his dad, and it kind of seemed like his dad was like, This shit is stupid, and you're stupid for doing it. Um, but yeah, so uh he mentions after that that there's been a lot of nesters hanging out around his house lately, and it's got him feeling a little jumpy. Um, and we find out that he doesn't even know what the actual date is anymore, like what time, like he's thinks that it's like possibly like late December or like mid-December because of the weather. Um, and then we kind of just get a lot of footage of him exploring these weird grounds um and not really saying anything super important. He's like, Oh, I wish I had my gloves, and then it's just like some like really emo shots of him like walking in a field like from a far distance, and then he's like climbing up these stairs that don't go anywhere. And then um, we get some like shots of him shooting a fucking basketball into a tree of baskets. I don't know, anyways. So it's um so yeah, and then um he basically is just having a fun day, he's just like ah, sick. So we find out that he once again has been uh mismanaging his time and it is dark now, and he has to walk over together. And this is when he gets attacked. So I want to find the spot, and I think maybe, Mike, this is where you were thinking of the Nestor that has the nurse's outfit on. Because basically, you see this shot, you see a shot, and it's actually that one Nester we saw at the end of your last video, Mike, because he's like standing there like this in the gown. Um, and it's pretty unnerving, actually. But this thing just like charges his ass. Um, but uh he does mention that he was able to kind of lose it, but he could tell that it was following him, which was unusual because a nestor doesn't typically follow like that. Usually, once you lose it, it's kind of one and done mine, like a like a one-mined like track that they keep. But this one kept coming back. Um and basically when he got home, he was all fucking dirty and nasty, so he's like, Well, I need to go get some cleaning supplies. And he ends up going to a Target. So he ends up going to Target, which he calls the market for all intents and purposes. But um, this is this is crazy. Like, the Target is empty. I don't I st it still kind of baffles me that he was able to take these like big sprawling shots of inside the store with nobody in it. So um, I really it it looks really good and it's done really well. But basically, he's sitting there fucking uh just picking out like supplies. He's like, uh, look at these, like uh this body wash and this these bubbles, and I like this. This is like an exfoliator, and here's some like random face stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:28

We use the same face lotion. That's good.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:31

You would. I learned a lot about you, Mike, when you came down. A lot, a lot of your routines. You're you're you're an interesting dude. Um we won't go to that. We won't go into that on uh we won't be young forever.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:43

You gotta have a routine.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:45

So yeah, that's that's pretty much all he does in Target. You see a lot of him just shopping, just talking about products. He gets a bunch of shit. Um, he you know, even got a fucking uh a nice little Target bag for himself. So um he noticed that on his way out that that same Nestor was still following him home, so he wanted to basically lure him back into one of his traps that he set up at home. Um and we get kind of like a little like backstory that he's like not a gun guy, but he had to go and get some guns from the local gun and ammo store. Um, since there's fucking crazy monsters outside. So he had a phenomenal name, but I forgot what it was.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:24

It was like the gunporium or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:27

As he has a whole fucking clip on the floor.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:31

Yeah, I don't know if I well, either way. So basically what he's doing ammo.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:36

Oh I thought it was something funny. I I thought I read something funny. Dang.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:41

Yeah, so basically he's going over uh he spends some time going over how he's made some of his traps and some of like the new ones that he's put around the house. The funniest shit I've ever seen. And he's just like walking around a gun store, which honestly it looks like a fucking Bass Pro Shop, to be fair, but maybe that's just how gun stores are. I don't know. I've never been in an actual just straight-up gun store. This is for sure a bass pro shop, but it either way.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:08

Um, yeah, I think he's just in the guns and ammo section of like a bass pro shop or yeah, like almost a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:14

Because that's the bass pro shop logo on that sign right there, anyways. So he literally like tapes a fucking AK 47 to a stick that can like rotate, uh, which is pretty fucking cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:29

It's like some Gary's mod shit. This dude's playing Gary's mod in real life. This is what's going on.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:34

Oh, a thousand percent. He just he it's just fucking rated R home alone kind of traps. But anyways, um he he does mention that mirrors confuse nesters, and they also don't like sound very much. So he ends up making this like contraption that essentially uh if a nester comes to the door, this alarm will go off, and then once the alarm goes off, they'll run towards the alarm where he's set up a mirror, and once they see themselves in the mirror, they'll attack the mirror and cut themselves, and hopefully they'll bleed out. Um, which is a very convoluted way to do everything, but it seems to work for him just fine. Uh so now that traps are set, it's time to bake those cookies and take a shower, dog. So he goes over his shower routine for a while and then takes a hot bath. We literally get like a clip of him just in the shower, just explaining why he does the what he's doing. And then um he draws a bath for himself, puts a bubble bomb in there, puts some bubbles in it, and basically goes over a bunch of face masks and nail cleaning stuff that he's gonna do. It's it's a lot of that for a while. Um, I'm not gonna lie, this whole series, whenever he's doing these monologues, there's always some shot of like a window or like an outside, and every time I'm like, I'm gonna there's a Nestor's gonna show up in the shot. Nestor's gonna show up in the shot.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:05

Never does, never does. There are several points throughout multiple, like this video and the one prior to the one before this, where he just leaves open windows to his back, and it's like my brother.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:18

Yeah. Um so basically he talks about wanting to pretend things are normal, but deep inside it is all but that. And this is like one of the first times I think we finally get like some like like some real like he's actually it kind of opening up, like he mentions that he hasn't done that to anyone, but now he's doing it to us, even though he doesn't know that we're watching. I guess he thinks someone may watch this at some point, obviously. But he's starting to kind of open up about how fucked up everything is. Um he goes into just a lot of deep, deep shit in this clip. Um, but he's he starts to talk about something that he's calling feeling the Nestor's presence and like being able to know that a Nestor is around, which we do kind of get a glimpse into at the end of the last episode. But I put a note and I said, This is funny because in a ton of the videos he walks right past a Nestor or films them without noticing, or like Matt said, just has open windows and doors. However, he does actually kind of mention that he's fucked up a lot and made a lot of mistakes during this, and that like he knows that he might be doing this, but like he doesn't really know what he's doing, so like why doesn't he try his fucking radio radar?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:44

Yeah, right, or his brand new fucking automatic AK-47s that just attack on site.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:52

Well, I have a feeling that in some of the so this we got really lucky. This video came out like a couple days before we were supposed to originally have done this episode. So we got lucky and we probably have the most up-to-date episode of this whole thing now. However, um, that being said, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot more episodes that come out of this, anyways. Um, I don't think we're anywhere near done with this because there's I think they have a lot left they can tell with this story. However, um, I'm not done with my uh this last episode yet. But so basically he's going into his flaws and he's opening up and just basically he's using a lot of metaphors like oh, it feels like the way I feel is like a hit of Novocaine is wearing off, or like you know, stuff like that. He's being very emo. Um and then um, yeah, once he's finally done in the bath, he uh he decides that he's going to put on all of his facial shit. We see him talking about stuff, and um he mentions that he's feeling dewy and vibrant, and um that uh yeah, he can finally get his cookies and um eat his cookies. So he's eating his cookies and then he's decides that he wants to hunt that nester that was following him down. So we see a shot of him basically like huddled up in front of this like radio that he has in the house, and uh he's kind of like just like talking shit at it, and and he's like kind of you know like messing with a knob to find find the nester. He's like, if I hear it on here, like I'll know that's that's the nester that was following me, just like by the noise that it makes. And then he's like, Oh, you fucking hear that? He's like, That's the fucking nester, and then it's like it like you're kind of just like hearing it and hearing it, and then like bam, like a fucking gunshot goes off. And he's like, Well, gun trap got him. And uh, it was like over just like that. And uh and as soon as uh as soon as we he he kind of realizes that the the trap got him, he's like, he's like, Well, didn't make it past the frontline system, but uh today was pretty relaxing and uh all around good day. And then he just signs off. And uh that's the end of the video.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:03

One one thing I want to emphasize again, I can't I can't emphasize it enough, actually. The guns. At first he says like he can remote control them, and then later it switches to like they have like infrared sensors on them and they just like lock onto whatever's near them. But you can't just do that. You know, like that's very difficult to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:29

Yeah, you're not fucking hitting anything that way.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:31

I don't think not only that, but just making that is something that I don't think just your average person can do. I'm uh my my guy here is an engineer. He must be.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:40

It takes like a lot of calibration and shit. Also, yeah, maybe we'll find out. If they're actually just like taped to PVC pipes, I feel like the recoil is probably gonna just bend that fucker.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:49

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. But I yeah, I mean, if you look at the picture of the AK 47, it's just it looks like it's just on a fucking pattern pick of wood.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:59

Yeah, uh, I fucking loved seeing that though. I'm like, this this is what this is what I'm talking about. I need I need this what like what in the Resident Evil is this? Where it got so over the top at one point, I'm like, what are we doing here? Wasn't this about like you being followed by a couple weird zombie things here and there? And now you're setting up automatic AK-47 booby traps in your yard. It's wonderful.

Nestors Theory And Plot Concerns

SPEAKER_06 1:20:28

Um, the last thing I will say about this episode is uh there's a pinned post by the archivist uh at the top of the comments that just says, Hello, everyone, are you noticing that our subject sanity is wavering at moments? It's getting hard for me to tell. Drop a timestamp below and let me know what's sticking out to you. Um and then yeah, there's some random people just talking about that's where I found the babe wake up new episode of Sad Chef is out. Um but uh yeah, I I loved it. I love all of it. I think it's goofy, I think it's well done. I like the craziness that is our protagonist. I think I think it's a fun watch, and I think there I I'm excited for more episodes to come out, like generally genuinely, because this is like I actually subscribed to the channel, which is kind of rare for me because I usually don't subscribe to a lot of these things that we watch. But uh this is one of the ones I did, and I was like kind of like, damn, I really kind of want another fucking episode to come out like pretty quickly here.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:23

Thank you for joining me on this episode of Sad Chef. You see, now that we've cooked this steak, a lot of people seem to think that you need A1 sauce, but no no no. A good steak only needs two things a crack of garlic salt and a crack of Lexapro on top.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:38

This has been Sad Chef. Thank you very much. Now that now that's it. Wow, thank you for put that in the flop bucket.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:50

I'm not even Yeah, no, this is good.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:54

It's it's uh very, very, very well done. And also I hope it gets zanier and just more out of control. I've said for a long time, from the very beginning of the podcast, that we need analog comedy. And the harder this leans into what the fuck is going on, the more I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:20

Yeah, I definitely need an episode where it's I like him doing this shit, and I just need him to have one where it's just like, hey, I'm Glendale guy. Welcome to my version of Jackass, and he's just like he's just like fucking double double leg kicking fucking zombies in the face and shit. I need I need that for like one episode. He's like, I got a lot of steam, I gotta blow off. Let's go hit him with a baseball bat.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:47

I want one episode that's just like straight up in like sitcom format, and it's uh like there's like an intro and everything. It's like Monday, Tuesday, happy days, and then like some guys like a nester's head just gets blown off by a shotgun, and like where everybody knows your name.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:05

Bam, bam, bam, bam. That'd be incredible. And you have to sprinkle in a couple nesters as like the background guys, where it's like in cheers, they come into the bar and they're just like nob, and he's just like, uh just zombied up.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:23

Well, I hope you all like and then at the end it's just him sitting at a table with like the dead bodies of the nesters he's killed. He's talking to him, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:32

They're just dead bodies he's just talking to him. He's got them rigged up on like strings and shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:40

Uh well, shit ass. Thank you everybody for joining us on the wild adventure.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:44

Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. I wanted to ask one question. I forgot I wanted to ask this. So now that we've seen what we've seen, what did there's something with the main guy, right? Like what like what is it? Like there's something going on with this guy that I can't grab. I think he's I think he's slowly turning into a there's nobody there. I think he's turning into a nester. I I was gonna say the same thing. Like, I feel like I was I don't know how they'd pull this off, but I was like almost thinking like, what if nesters are just another person stuck in this world thinking that they're the only person in the world? Oh really it's just like hosts other people because he's like, Yeah, the nesters have sleeping bags. Why the fuck would these fucking crazy motherfuckers have sleeping bags? And why like what? Yeah, why are they using sleeping bags?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:34

Well, he kind of hints at that when he's like, This is a good place to nest. It's like yeah, well, they're yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:40

I also need to see him get more he's he's obviously losing it. I need to see him get more attached to the camera. I want the camera to be his uh his Wilson. You know what I mean? I need him because it he already kind of does it. He talks to the camera and he interacts with it like it's a another person at at times, and I need them to go full ass into that where he's just talking to the camera like it's his buddy along with him on the ride. I need that to happen way more often. That'd be incredible. But yeah, I think he's turning. I like your idea. I think he's turning into a nester, but I like your idea where every there's just a psychosis, I guess, and everyone thinks everyone else is a nestor.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:18

Yeah, like everybody's seeing each other through like a filter of either it's like a filter or it's like a they've all lost it and they don't realize like they see each other as these nesters. The question is like Mr. Whiteout, what what's he what's his deal?

SPEAKER_06 1:25:36

Yeah, yeah, what is his deal? I'm I'm I want to see more about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:40

Yeah, they need to expand on that for sure. I think that's what I'm most curious about. I don't know that we're ever gonna get like any sort of real explanation for like why this universe exists or anything like that. I don't think it doesn't make a lot of sense to go into that sort of lore. I I guess I am a little I don't see the long term plan here because I don't think they're gonna be able to go into like the reason for the creation of this wherever whatever this universe that he sli slipped into is. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:23

Yeah, I feel like I kind of think I feel like there's like a there's like a probably like three to four more episode limit to where it becomes redundant. Like they really have to kind of like sum it up in the next couple of videos to like I don't know, maybe keep my interest, if that makes sense. Like I think there's a good chunk that's happened so far, but if it keeps being the same like format where it's just him going out, him cooking and him doing nothing and us learning nothing else, then it's gonna start to become stagnant.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:54

Yeah. Yeah, the there needs to be some plot development here for me. I don't the my one criticism is like I don't think I care much about his character development other than like him going nuts and like doing increasingly zany shit is entertaining. But like his whole thing about like how he feels alone and he's always felt alone. The only way they can make that interesting to me is if there's some sort of like bombshell that is related to his personal life that explains why he's here, like some sort of reveal like he killed himself or something.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:39

Like Oh, and this is like limbo type of thing?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:42

Yeah, like he didn't this is yeah, like a purgatory that he ended up in or something like that. That's not another theory I have, but like for me to care about the character development that's going on, it it has to lead to something like that.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:57

I was kind of thinking about that when Mike was talking about His video where he was just being real sad boy, the like seven-minute video. Um, I was like, I wonder if maybe he is dead. Like, and this is his like personal, like, oh, he's in silent hill. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:12

Yeah, I I also think I don't know if even the creators know really what's going on because they right off the rip, they have like a bunch of I wouldn't I want to call them plot holes, but like he uses a radio at the first bit. That's gone. There's Mr. White out. That's kind of gone. He uh uh talks about how like Nestors, you know, they'll they'll they'll they never leave their sleeping bag around, but we never really see anything with that happen. Like there's a lot of little plot points that they just one and done with. Right. And it's interesting to see if they I don't I I just don't know if they even know what's going on with it. They're just adding cool shit to add cool shit, maybe, but right.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:53

Yeah, that is my concern with it. And and the way that they ask people to suggest like what they want to see is kind of indicative of that, I think. Like they're letting people decide what direction it goes in a little bit, which kind of means suggests to me that maybe they don't have a long-term plan. And I can see this becoming a sort of thing where like they kind of lose the plot and don't know what to do with it or how to wrap it up. Like to me at this point, it needs to be leading to something.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:25

It wouldn't be the worst thing, like letting your your audience pick and ch like pick what happens next, because like what do we we covered, what was it, meet sleep or whatever that did something like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:35

I'm fine with that if they have like some sort of well-fleshed out idea of what's going on and like are letting people participate within a universe that they have scoped out.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:47

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:48

And not just letting people w randomly choose the universe. Yeah, because I feel like that's you end up in a no way you end up in a situation where you're never gonna be able to satisfyingly wrap anything up, and everything that happens in the middle is going to be a w like unless there's sheer entertainment value, like him crossbowing nesters and shit, it's gonna end up being wasted content that means nothing in the end.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:16

So I just went to their fourth wall to see like if I could see anything. That's the post that kind of irks me.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:24

I think you might talk about it now, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:26

I forgot about that. Uh well, long story short, I was just gonna say they just posted two hours ago an early release episode. So there is a new episode out technically, but they're they're what it says is it's one to seven days before public release, so we may see a video in the next week or at least. I um I'm a little irked because they have a Patreon.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:45

Like they one of the archive things talk about, and they're like, Oh, if you want to see more uh more videos about the guy and his day-to-day routine, go to our Patreon. So it's like you're you're paywalling lore. Lore, yeah, yeah, you're paywalling lore for your analog horror. That doesn't make much sense to me. Like, no wonder this thing seems kind of in shambles. You're locking a bunch of it behind a paywall that could potentially make the like the things that I'm questioning make sense. What happened to the radio? Who knows? Maybe that answers it, but right.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:18

It's if there's information behind the paywall that is critical to understanding the story, that sucks.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:26

I don't know that that's I saw that and I was like, eh. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe like it.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:32

Actually, to be fair, it does look like the archivist is responding to a bunch of comments in some of the the videos, too. Um, it looks like a lot of the BTS that's happening on the fourth wall is still photos.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:48

Okay. I'm fine with stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:51

But even that could be I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:53

I guess only one I only see one video, and it's 30 seconds long. That's an unreleased video, and it just says Nestor's trying to break in, but I don't I don't really see a whole lot of anything else that really would seem like there's like lore being hidden. Um the only thing I see is that that archivist video where they're answering comments, so like I don't I don't really know if we learn anything there. We might you probably would, I would assume, but yeah, it's still weird. That's all I found.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:21

It's still weird that you're trying to tell a story and then you lock some of the information to it behind a paywall. Like, you wouldn't you want all this to be out? Like, I get it, you're trying to fund your shit, but that just that just seems weird to me. I haven't seen that yet. It just seems like an odd thing to do, which is fine. Well, it is what it is. I mean, I'm sure they have a plan, but it just seemed odd. It just seemed like an odd thing, is all yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:44

Yeah, well, anyway, what with what's there, I'm gonna give this like a probably like an eight out of ten.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:50

Yeah, it's pretty entertaining. That's that's fair. I I I think I agree with that.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:54

I'd go like I'd go like seven just because you can I get it, it's to show him kind of going a little weird, but you can cut down like the chicken parm recipes. You can cut that down a lot. Like the chicken parm was like 12-minute thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:07

I think it's an intentional artistic decision, though. I think they're like, oh ho ho, we're gonna put this whole 10-minute fucking thing in here.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:13

Well, I think it's supposed to be like him trying to live a normal life in this chaotic world that he's in. But I I can get that after two minutes of him making a chicken parm. I don't need 12 minutes of it, you know. I get what you're going for. You don't need to waste my time.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:29

Yeah, I the thing is like if you he if he was well, never mind. Because I was gonna say, if he was making these videos in this situation, he would probably leave the entire thing in, but he's not editing the final product together, the archivist is editing the final product together, and so she has made it the decision that this entire 10-minute cooking segment needs to go into this video. Exactly. That is a strange decision, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:57

It just shave that shit down, it loses one point. It would have been Nate, it drops it down to a seven for me because of that. You could shave off so much time on this. It just a lot of this did as much as I like it, a lot of my time did feel wasted on on parts like that. That kind of pissed me off. I can see that. Not pissed me off, but it irked me.

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SPEAKER_02 1:34:14

I'm giving it an eight out of ten as it is. This has potential to go either direction. If they just keep doing, like Doug said, if they just keep releasing the same type of content and this doesn't really lead anywhere or have any significant development, it's it would drop down to something lower for me.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:36

Yeah, yeah. Not finished, d not not finished, so I don't I don't I don't know. Tentatively eight out of ten, I think, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:47

Well, you can all tentatively go to dilutipod.com or patreon.com slash dilutipod if you want to support us. Uh there is extra lore there.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:56

I guess we're paywalling lore if you want to learn. There's a like five years worth of episodes where we just talk about our personal lives.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:03

Yeah, that is true. We have a lot of shit there. We have five years worth of bonus content there. There's a lot. Um, especially in the beginning when we did like four extra bonuses a month. Yeah, oh my god. No, we did more than that. We did like eight, I want to say. We were doing so many videos.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:20

I had to re-upload all that stuff to fourth wall when we switched to fourth wall. Oh my fucking god. I sat here for like three days and did that.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:27

We did a bonus a week, plus we did six. We did a bonus, seven, we did a bonus a week, cryptid, Cthulhu, and shifting sands occasionally. Yeah, like what so we did like seven things a month. That was fucked up, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:40

Probably half of the content that is on the membership sites is from like the first two years.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:47

Yeah. I'm glad we dumbed it down for our owning our own livelihoods. But uh, yeah, go there, check out some of our shit. I know times are tough right now, so if you can't, don't worry about it, baby girl. You do you. Gas is expensive, I get it. Um, but chuck in what you can if you want, and if you feel you can. Um after you bought your gas. After you bought your gas, yeah. Um you can also go to dilutypod at dilutipod at gmail.com, send us an email. We like to respond to those. That'd be cool. Um if you see any nesters out there and they look like a d a a father figure.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:27

Go and give them a little smooch. That might cure 'em.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:32

That might just cure 'em. Uh Martholomule, what do you got?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:37

The astronauts made it back. We shot people around the moon. They landed.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:42

You're supposed to do bad news, remember?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:44

No, I just do news, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:46

Oh, alright. We're blockading the blockade. Yo, son, I heard you like blockades.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:51

Doug, what do you got? Um slap those peans against those beans. I think it's been long enough. I think I think we've we're out of the hiatus of slapping our peans and beans together that now we can start doing it again. However, Orthon. No, no, no. This isn't about orthodon right now. This is about taking your girl. This is about taking your girl to the facility, dog. And slapping your peen against their bean. Alright. Do it. They'll love it.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:23

The facility.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:25

Okay. Alright. New merch. New merch. It doesn't even need it. It doesn't even need a design.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:30

It just says I got finger made at the facility, nothing.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:34

Yep. You got it. You knew where I was going.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:37

Oh, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:39

That one's getting made for sure. I promise.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:43

Oh, we do need we do need like the TP thing, or like just copy it out of the video.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:48

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We'll just screenshot it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:51

Just stick it on the or that big tower that's like different angles and shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:57

Hell yeah. All right, everybody. Bless the day. Goodbye.